A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp.

  • Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778.
Date:
1750
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery / By Samuel Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a greater Proportion than the other Parts: Though if the Hernia be form'd of Intejline only it may like wife fucceed, efpecially if the Glands of that part of the Mefentery which is in the Scrotum happen to be enlarg’d ; for by thefe Evacuations they will be exceedingly di- minifhed, and 9 confequently make room for the return of the obftrudted Inteftine. From the Principle juft laid down, it fhould feem that when the Hernia is compos’d of Omentum only, the Probability of a Cure fhould increafe; but if I am not miftaken, it is an In- ftance where the Experiment is not worth making, I mean if the Hernia be large; for though by this means you do reftore the Omen¬ tum into the Abdomen, yet when it replenifhes again, as it will do when the Patient returns to his former manner of living, it will be apt to fall down again into the Scrotum, or lie uneafily preffing againft the Cufhion of the Trufs: But the greateft Exception to this Method of Cure in every Species of Hernia, is the want of an abfolute Criterion by which to diftinguifh when the Parts do or do not adhere to the Herniary Sack, and in advanced Years, though one was fure that the Vifcera were free from the Sacky \ 9 Arnaud, 291, *